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Revealed: UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity (www.theguardian.com)

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Sue Cowley, an education expert who runs training for schools, tweeted her response to the records she had been sent under her name this week: “Excuse my language but WTAF [what the actual fuck] are the DfE doing spending taxpayer money conducting surveillance on critics of government policy on here?”

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[–] 3arn0wl 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is deeply troubling in what is supposed to be a free society.

Education is a fundamental... But it has never been, and never will be, a one-size-fits-all thing, and trying to impose an Authoritarian View and suppressing other ideas, is just wrong, and bad.

Perhaps I should request a disclosure of what they have on me : I have been critical of nonsensical testing in the past (though I think that some sort of baseline assessment is needed, and has always been done in some form).